Xi Zhicai took the lead and said: "The barbarians are brave, strong, unruly and capricious, so it is better to exterminate them first to determine the rear." ”

Xun Yu said: "Yes, the terrain around Chengdu is flat, if the barbarians are uneasy about the status quo and go out of the mountains to plunder, Chengdu has no danger to defend, and the hinterland of Yizhou will be affected by the war, and our army is poor to protect itself, how can we talk about revitalizing the Han Dynasty?" The barbarians do not know the art of war, do not understand the strategy, it is very easy to cut down, I think it is better to strike first, and send troops to stabilize the rear in one fell swoop. With a solid rear, our military will be able to achieve sufficient troops and sufficient food and achieve the great cause of reunification. ”

Man Chong also said: "My subordinates agree with Zhicai and Wen Ruo's words, if there is no stable rear, how can we talk about external expansion." Only by ensuring the stability of the rear can our army go all out to Guanzhong in the north or out of Jingzhou in the east, in an attempt to dominate the cause. ”

Mao Jue said: "However, the barbarians are capricious, our army has successfully advanced and suppressed, they beg to surrender and surrender, once the main force is far away from them, they will rebel, what should we do?" Attacking again? ”

Cheng Yu also said: "The words of filial piety are reasonable, if our army can't collect the hearts of the barbarians, and falls into the cycle of surrendering, retreating and rebelling, the people will lose their money, and the people of Yizhou will be overwhelmed one day!" ”

Guo Jia said: "The barbarians are strong, once our army subdues the barbarians, you can build an army composed of barbarians, you can get an elite and strong army, as for the barbarians capricious, there is no need to worry, the barbarians are good at field battles but are not good at attacking fortifications, after our army succeeds in defeating the barbarians, as long as they occupy a dangerous position and control the blockage due to the danger, only a small number of troops can protect the safety of the Chengdu Plain, which is important in Yizhou, so that the barbarians are afraid and dare not raise troops to make trouble, that is, they will not be able to conquer in the face of the fortified city in the short term, and our army can also calmly transfer troops to quell the rebellion. ”

Xun Yu said: "Yes, if the barbarians are left alone, we will have to deploy heavy troops to defend." For the rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty, our army needs elite troops to go out of Yizhou to defeat the ministers, so the two lines of troops are bound to draw a large number of strong men to join the army, if our army falls into the state of poor soldiers, then decay is not far away! ”

Xun You said: "Yes, it is better to decide the situation in a war than to waste money and food, only after the southern front of our army is stabilized, our army can seek the cause of hegemony, otherwise no matter how strong our army is, there will always be a malignant tumor under the elbow armpit, which may wipe out our army at any time." ”

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Liu Zhang waved his hand and said: "The words of the princes are reasonable, but I think that 'attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top', the world often says that it is easy to be a thief in a thousand days, and it is difficult to prevent thieves in a thousand days. And the barbarians and we are all descendants of the Han family, and we should be treated equally, and they are not guilty, and they are rash and unjust. I think of it, if you blindly resort to force, its heart has a grudge, once there is an opportunity to inevitably rebel, it is better to slowly accept the heart of the barbarian in a gentle way, I put forward a few suggestions, the public to think about whether it is feasible, if the public has objections, please speak clearly. First, open the border to the market, trade fairly, and enrich the people; Second, select virtuous and talented Confucians to teach their children to read and hyphenation, and use those who are talented as officials to increase their power; Third, a conscription order was issued in the barbarian villages, so that those who had nothing to live in the army were enlisted in the army to support their families; Fourth, the law was promulgated, and the Han and the barbarians were all equal, and the two sides were encouraged to intermarry and Sinicize the barbarians. In this way, the barbarians have food to eat and a promising future, who wants to rebel with their heads? ”

Everyone thought about it carefully, and after a while, they applauded at the same time.

Guo Jiabai said: "A good sentence is to attack the city for the bottom, and the heart is for the top, the lord's four-point strategy can defeat 100,000 male soldiers!" ”

Xun Yu said: "In the opinion of his subordinates, this strategy can be implemented in the whole territory of the Han Dynasty, regardless of the Qiang people, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Shanyue...... All according to this, within a few years, Yi people by the new deal, will voluntarily belong to the Han, since then the Han Yi family, can be said to cover a thousand autumns! ”

Everyone said yes.

Xun Yu said again: "The subordinates think that in order to let the barbarians voluntarily join the army, the lord can compensate the family of each soldier with some money and grain, and subsidize some grain seeds and farming tools, so that they have no worries. Those who serve in the army should be organized into an army independently, and many barbarians and talented people should be generals, so that the barbarians can feel the true feelings of the lord. ”

Liu Zhang said: "Wen Ruo's words are reasonable, I have decided that in the future, the government will give relief on time to all military and martyr dependents, regardless of Han and barbarian, and those who are in difficulty in life, and the taxes of military and martyr families will be reduced by 30%. ”

Cheng Yu said: "The lord is benevolent and righteous, and his subordinates deeply admire, but in this way, Yizhou's tax revenue will be greatly reduced......

Liu Zhang said: "It doesn't matter, the soldiers can't engage in production after joining the army, so there is less labor in the family, and they have to risk being sacrificed at any time...... The compensation we made was not enough compared to their efforts! ”

Cheng Yu nodded: "My subordinates understand!" ”

Liu Zhang said: "Wen Ruo, I ordered someone to copy today's resolution into a book, and distribute it to all parts of Yizhou, so that every Yizhou people must know about it." ”

"Subordinates obey!"

"In addition, I have decided to set up the post of Protector of the Barbarian Zhonglang General, which will be concurrently held by Nanzhong Taishou, and have full authority to supervise Yizhou to handle barbarian affairs!" Of course, this barbarian Zhonglang general is copied from Cao Cao.

Everyone looked at Liu Zhang, with a deep belief in their eyes, originally some of them thought that Liu Fan and Liu Lian were released as officials because Liu Zhang was suppressing the two brothers, so that they could not threaten his position, but now this idea is gone. Protecting the barbarian general, from the name, is not outstanding, but a small Zhonglang general, but the power to supervise the Yizhou barbarians is extremely important, Yizhou has nearly half of the place where barbarians live, Liu Zhang's move is equivalent to handing over a small half of Yizhou to Liu Fan, what kind of trust is this? Any gossip vanished at this moment.

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Don't miss time, three years pass in a flash.

On this day, Liu Zhang was fishing in the back garden of the State Pastoral Mansion, to say that everything was good in the late Han Dynasty, the air was good, the environment was good, the food was good, and the jade people who did not apply powder were better, but there were also many unbearable things, such as no Internet, no TV, no mobile phone, and no various YY novels! Reading? Sorry, you have to hold a few pounds of bamboo slips and look at the strange handwriting (after all, paper has just been invented in this era, and printing will take a long time, and the text is mainly written by people and bamboo slips and cloth. Speaking of the writing of this era, Liu Zhang, as the great-grandfather of the former Qing Xiucai, was no stranger to traditional Chinese characters, and after his rebirth, he spent a lot of time learning the writing of this era, and writing was no longer a problem for him. The regular script written by Liu Zhang was just emerging at this time, and it was not widely circulated, and his words were also as highly sought after as Cai Yong's words, and he was called Yizhou Shuangjue by a group of henchmen of the state pastoral government, and it was almost difficult to find a word. Some people rank his words before Cai Yong, which is of course affected by Liu Zhang's identity, but it is actually partially true, at least Liu Zhang's words are more mature than Cai Yong, not that Cai Yong's words are not good, Cai Yong can be said to be behind closed doors at this time, and Liu Zhang's book is the world's most beautiful square word achieved by the continuous improvement of literati and ink writers in the past two thousand years), fatigue is not only your eyes, but also your hands. So Liu Zhang let people open a pond in the garden, stocking some fish, idle to do, then in the pond fishing to pass the time, as a Sichuan man of course he heard of the famous lotus pond wholesale market in later generations, out of bad taste, he ordered people to plant a few sections of lotus root in the pond, the pond was named lotus pond. Whenever he fished here, he would think, I wonder if people will think of me when they mention lotus ponds in the future.